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To clarify; I work alone most of the time. When I'm recording vocals, I'm using loop record to stack the takes and then comp them later. I often am punching in a line within a verse or sometimes even a word in a line. Because loop recording will not allow me to hear my vocals leading up to the auto punch in-point (it loops directly to the auto punch locator), I can't use auto punch and loop recording together. I don't know of a work around and I'm guessing there needs to be a separate locator for the in-point of the loop and another locator for the in-point for auto punch. Hope this makes sense. Any help is appreciated.

Basically it seems as if you’d want to loop an auto punch-in, yet would need to ability to define the amount of pre-roll and punch-out you’d need in order to properly prepare yourself for the punch-in.

This would be a feature I’d like to see, especially since the current pre-roll feature is a bar in length. If this is actually adjustable, please someone direct to the pre-roll length edit feature.

This is not an answer because I have the same problem. I am coming to Studio One from Sonar. In Sonar, you can set loop points separately from punch in points. Therefore you can set a loop which is wider than you punch in region and therefore hear what occurred before your punch will start. This is very helpful if you want to punch in a few words of a verse line ... you have the context of what went before. I guess Studio One does not support this, but it is a major bit of pain having to use punch alone to hear the preceding sounds.